Contributor Patrick Clarke
Features / Interviews
Poetic License: John Cooper Clarke meets Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten
One’s a stalwart of the scene, the punk poet of the people - the bard of Salford. One’s the eloquent singer of Ireland’s most literary-minded young chart-botherers. We’ll leave them to it…
November 13, 2020 1:33pm
Features
A brief look into… Anna Meredith’s ‘FIBS’
Ahead of the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize, we’ve taken a brief look at the twelve shortlisted albums.
September 21, 2020 10:00am
Features / Interviews
Mind Games: Everything Everything
Since 2010 debut ‘Man Alive’, Everything Everything have become masters of the intricate and the odd. And fifth album ‘Re-Animator’ is their most uninhibited record yet.
September 11, 2020 3:17pm
Features / Interviews
Streets Ahead: Mike Skinner
When Mike Skinner reunited The Streets, he could’ve cashed his cheque and quit. Instead, he’s got a mixtape, album and film on the way. We meet the certified legend who’s still pushing things forward.
May 8, 2020 1:00pm
Features / Interviews
Every Good: Porridge Radio
From Brighton’s DIY underground scene, Dana Margolin and pals are finally peeking their heads above the parapet and aiming for something bigger.
March 13, 2020 10:48am
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Sound & Vision: La Roux
2014’s ‘Trouble In Paradise’ may have proved an all-too-relevant title, but with new LP ‘Supervision’, La Roux’s Elly Jackson is striding out on her own and swearily taking back control.
February 7, 2020 1:18pm
Features / Interviews
Youth & Young Manhood: Mura Masa
On second album ‘R.Y.C’ (Raw Youth Collage), Alex Crossan - aka Mura Masa - is stepping out from behind the laptop, finding his voice and broadening his horizons.
February 5, 2020 2:26pm
Features
DIY’s Albums of the Year 2019
Team DIY pick out their favourite records from the year.
December 20, 2019 10:00am
Archive
His Dark Materials: Pixies
Across a long and rich career, Pixies have built a canon of strange and singular work. On ‘Beneath The Eyrie’ they’re finally inviting people into their world, but don’t think it’s going to come easy.
September 13, 2019 1:45pm
Features / Interviews
Gimme Some Truth: The Murder Capital
On debut ‘When I Have Fears’, Dubliners The Murder Capital set out to explore their inner workings in the most commited way possible. This is what they found.
August 16, 2019 10:43am
Features / Interviews
Bare Necessities: Ezra Furman
Stripping things back to their rawest, most unfiltered form, ‘Twelve Nudes’ finds Ezra Furman tackling the world and himself head on, and coming out fighting.
August 5, 2019 3:18pm
Features / Tracks
Tracks: Sports Team, LIFE, Black Honey, Marika Hackman and more
All the biggest and best tracks of the week, rounded up and reviewed.
June 15, 2019 11:30am
Features / Interviews
‘Mon the Sniff: Amyl and the Sniffers
Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers leave a trail of sweaty carnage wherever they go. We meet the band in Hamburg and try to keep up…
May 23, 2019 12:26pm